Protests are being held in solidarity with Palestine around the world this week, with large demonstrations planned for this coming weekend. Thousands of people have hit the streets in cities throughout the United States.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. André Carson (D-IN) joined the crowd outside the State Department in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, demanding an end the forced displacement of Palestinians in Jerusalem.
“Our freedom is interconnected with black, brown, and indigenous,” said Tlaib. “It is connected. What they are doing to the Palestinian people is what they continue to do to our black brothers and sisters here…I want you to know this, if you are marching for freedom for Palestine, please know that you must be marching for everybody’s freedom. It is all interconnected.”
“Today, I was honored to join @RepRashida and a diverse crowd of people at the State Department to demand justice for Palestinians,” tweeted Carson after addressing the crowd. “Americans of all backgrounds have a moral obligation to protect human rights wherever they are threatened — in #SheikhJarrah, and around the world!”
Rally organizers delivered a petition signed by over 220,000 people, urging the Biden administration to act. It quotes Mohammed El-Kurd, whose family was forcefully displaced from their home in Sheikh Jarrah. “This fate of dispossession looms over much of my neighborhood,” he said. “Our lives are consumed by the anxiety of living on the brink of homelessness.”
Mohammed El-Kurd, a writer fighting to save his family home in Sheikh Jarrah, appeared at multiple events over social media livestream.
Hundreds of protestors turned up in front of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles and thousands gathered on the streets of midtown Manhattan.
“You might ask yourself, what can you do in New York City to make sure that our brothers, our sisters, our family beyond the binary in Palestine are safe and free and receive justice?” New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani told a crowd. “You can put pressure on every single elected officials. At the city council, at the state assembly, at the state senate. We have elected officials who are taking paid-for trips to Israel. They are going there paid for by your tax dollars. They show up at Israel Day parades and say, ‘We stand in solidarity. We want to let them know that there are three letters we have as an answer to what is happening in Palestine and it’s B-D-S.”
The progressive Jewish organization IfNotNow blocked traffic outside of Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (NY-D) office, demanding that the lawmaker sponsor Rep. Betty McCollum’s (D-MN) historic new bill. The legislation aims to end U.S. complicity in Israel’s human rights abuses.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) are currently circulating a congressional letter that calls on the Biden administration to investigate whether U.S. aid is being used by Israel to displace Palestinians in Jerusalem.
Rashida Talib is in a unique position to be heard by all sides. It could be healing for her to declare “From the River to the Sea, All will be Free”. Helpful too would be an apology for not speaking up in a timely manner when the public slapping of religious Jews was posted to TicToc. If not her, who?
“Our deep roots of solidarity are part of a rich tradition of mutual support and exchange between Palestine and US-based liberation movements, from the Black Panthers to the most recent communication between activists in Gaza and Ferguson, MO. Our struggles are connected in many ways, not least because the same Israeli forces forcibly expelling the original inhabitants of Sheikh Jarrah train repressive police forces around the world, including the US” – BLM Paterson statement on solidarity with the people of Palestine as they are being savagely attacked, once again, by the Zionist regime in Israel.
All of you that follow Mondoweiss, get out there and protest today or in the upcoming days! Let’s all do our part to help make Israel Palestine again – a land of equality that is a true “beacon of democracy in the Middle East”!
It makes me so hopeful when I see thousands of people speaking up against Israel, until it all dies down yet again, and Israel will get away with desecrating a Mosque so arrogantly, and attacking the worshippers in the premises. Cue in a hastily organized pro occupation/pro Israel rally, as they will try to show they have supporters too. Soon to a town near you.
Israel has once again supposedly bombed building housing “terrorists”, I would take that with a pinch of salt.
This time it appears they have been aback by the barrage of rockets reaching Tel Aviv. What do they expect? It was predictable it will happen soon. No sympathy from many, considering this is the exact fear and terror the people of Gaza have had to go through for decades, every time Israel flexed it’s American made muscles, and bombed Gaza to rubble. Sad situation. As always it is the innocent civilians that pay the price.
THIS IS NETANYAHU’S DOING, MAYBE TO DISTRACT FROM HIS CORRUPTION CHARGES, AND THAT HE FAILED TO FORM A GOVERNMENT, BUT HE STARTED THIS FIRE WHEN HE SET HIS ARMED GOONS ON PEOPLE WORSHIPPING IN THEIR MOSQUE.
The Hasbara trolls are out in full force blaming it all on the victims.